Today's photo challenge here at FREEDOMtravel. The photo challenge is a way to challenge ourselves - but if anyone wants to join in, it's fun! The photo challenge in March has the theme "means of transport".
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It is the blogger Maria's Memoirs who launched the photo challenge, and she was inspired by the Lonely Planet's Instagram account.
How many different modes of transport have you managed to capture on film?
The challenge is about means of transport photographed while travelling, or perhaps at home? Of course, the exact number depends on how you choose to count, but that is perhaps less important. The most important thing is to look in the archives and find exciting and fun photos of transport. Here are our contributions. We have divided them into four categories
- On the road
- On the track
- In the air
- In the water
1. On the road
We start on the road, and of course we have to start with motorhomes. We have photographed so many different motorhomes, big and small, new and old, classic and creative. Here's a tiny selection, with our FREEDOM in the biggest picture.
We see ordinary cars all the time, of course, but we don't photograph them very often. Perhaps the camera mainly goes forward when we see slightly different cars. We have seen the most interesting cars in Malta!
Of course, we often see buses too, but they don't often make it into the picture. However, the amphibious bus in Stockholm is so special that it got its own post:
Mopeds and motorbikes are often seen, and in some countries they can be heavily loaded. The motorcycles in the big picture are from "Mälaren runt", taken at the start outside our marina.
In Asia you can also see mopeds with sidecars, tuktuks and - if you are in the Philippines - jeepneys. These vehicles are used as a kind of bus, and are an extension of the Willy's Jeep, a military vehicle that the Americans left behind in the country at the end of World War II. Today, the jeepney is produced entirely in the Philippines.
Of course there will be some bike photos in the collection too! You may recognise our electric bikes if you follow the blog. The big picture is from a bike taxi ride in Beijing many years ago.
2. On the track
Then it was time for transport that runs on tracks. We have the fewest photos of what we perhaps travel most often - the metro and commuter trains. Trains, on the other hand, are plentiful in the archives.
We also find some mixed images of trams.
3. in the air
It's time for air transport! We start with some different types of aeroplanes.
You see helicopters and hot air balloons from time to time. When that little "gyrocopter" came flying over our houseboat, we didn't even know what it was, but luckily there is always a reader who can tell us.
We also have to include some daring "means of transport". Cable car is perhaps not so daring really, but since I (Helena) think cable cars are scary, it is still counted there. That I did hang gliding was a bit surprising, right?
4. In the water
Finally, there will be photos of means of transport in the water. We start with various rubber boats and canoes.
We then continue with some miscellaneous motorised boats. In fact, I think I have thousands of photos of boats. This is a small, small selection.
Sailing can be an experience and these photos remind us of that. A few years ago we sailed with the school ship Gratia and this summer we sailed in Poland and Germany with a Bavaria C50. A fantastic experience!
Of course, we also have to include some photos of cruise ships and ferries. It's a bit of a mix.
Are there any other means of transport?
The only thing we haven't included now is animals, which can of course also be used as a means of transport. We end this post with some photos of animals that are sometimes used for travelling.
Which means of transport have you captured in the photo?
Maria / MagnoliaMagis says:
What a fun thing to do! You don't think about the actual means of transport in the picture! You forgot the apostle horses! The vehicle that pops into my mind is the largest privately owned boat we saw in Italy, Dolce & Gabbana's boat as it entered the harbour in Viareggio. So fun to see the boats that were big and bad when this monster slipped by...;D
04 March 2020 - 10:23
Helena says:
Yes, the apostle horses are a good means of transport! 🙂 And yes, gigantic boats ... think of those luxury yachts with a helipad ... 😉 .
05 March 2020 - 7:16
Maria / MagnoliaMagis says:
Exactly!
05 March 2020 - 11:13
Ama de casa says:
What a fun challenge and what a deep dive into the archives! Wonderful pictures 🙂
04 March 2020 - 11:09
Helena says:
Yes, luckily I have usually labelled the images with names when I uploaded them in wordpress, so you can search for "helicopter" or "boat" 😉.
05 March 2020 - 7:17
bmlarstravellingblog says:
Now I am finally starting to understand why some of our Photo Club members tag their images in Lightroom with vehicles, flowers, etc. What a horrible job you have done digging through the archives, but a really fun idea.
04 March 2020 - 12:54
Helena says:
In wordpress I name the images, and then you can search!
05 March 2020 - 7:18
Lisa says:
So many means of transport you have photographed. The tram in Lisbon is very nice and of course we also photographed it on our Lisbon trip.
Now I have another question that actually has to do with transport, we have never been boating in the Stockholm archipelago. Do you have any good tips on how and where to go? Maybe a blog post about this, it would be nice.
04 March 2020 - 14:59
Helena says:
It sounds super nice with a boat trip in the Stockholm archipelago. Are you thinking with or without a motorhome? Without a motorhome you can go to islands further out and so on, but with a motorhome you can get to where there are car ferries. We don't really know ... Kapellskär has a campsite and Norrtälje is nice, as are Yxlan, Blidö and Ljusterö.
06 March 2020 - 7:24
Maria's memoirs says:
But oh how many means of transport you managed to include, good digging in the archives ???
04 March 2020 - 15:28
Helena says:
Yes, there was some digging 😉 Thanks for the inspiration!
06 March 2020 - 7:24
BP says:
A great photo challenge! It must have taken you several hours to dig out all these means of transport and/or you have a very good organisation of your photo archives:-)
04 March 2020 - 17:25
Helena says:
Luckily, I have named most of the images in WordPress and then you can search for e.g. "helicopter", so that sped up the process a bit 🙂 .
06 March 2020 - 7:25
Lena - good for the soul says:
Well done!
Well, I probably have far from so many different means of transport in my archive, hehe. Feels hard to beat 🙂
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05 March 2020 - 5:48
Helena says:
I didn't think at all that we would have this much when I started looking, but then it grew... 😉.
06 March 2020 - 7:26